1/5 Tuman - Ahmad Qajar

Ahmad Shah ascended the Qajar throne in 1909 at eleven years old, following the deposition of his father Mohammad Ali Shah, who had attempted to abolish the constitutional government and bombarded the parliament. These fractional tuman denominations were struck in the opening years of his reign during the regency of Nasir al-Mulk, when Iran was effectively partitioned into British and Russian spheres of influence under the 1907 Anglo-Russian Convention. The tiny gold fractions saw minimal actual commerce — the purchasing power gap between them and everyday transactions made practical circulation nearly impossible.